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The Movie

Dinosaur from Future War

Synopsis

A race of time-traveling alien "Masters" kidnaps humans from Earth's future to use as slaves and takes dinosaurs from the past to use as trackers of those who escape.

One of their victims, the Runaway (Daniel Bernhardt) escapes and arrives in late 1990's Los Angeles. There he must elude the cyborgs and their dinosaurss, the police, and the Feds. He is befriended by a drug-dealing-hooker-turned-novitiate (Stewart) who runs a halfway house.

Information

During filming, producer Dave Eddy and some other crew members remarked that it would be great if the film someday appeared on MST3K, which it ultimately did.

A "Damage Control Unit" was formed to salvage the film when the producers were disappointed with the work of the director, Anthony Doublin.

Bernhardt would later go on to have a successful movie career as a stuntman/action performer, and he also appeared in The Matrix Reloaded as Agent Johnson, a leader of the Agents program (that film later got riffed by RiffTrax). His longest continuous work was as the character 'Siro' in the live-action Mortal Kombat TV show "Mortal Kombat: Konquest" for one season in 1998.

Shot in 1994 but not released until 1997, making it the most recent movie to be featured on the show in terms of release date. The second most recent to be shown on the show was Experiment #821 Time Chasers.

The older gentleman walking in the park who is killed by one of the dinosaurs is Forrest J. Ackerman, noted film memorabilia collector, b-movie historian, and editor of "Famous Monsters of Filmland" magazine (usually abbreviated to "Famous Monsters"). Ackerman died in 2008, but as of 2013, Famous Monsters is still published on a bi-monthly basis. A copy of the magazine can be seen in his hands as he meets his demise.

In 2014, the film's composer Arlen Boll made the theme song for this film available as a single on iTunes.

The Episode

Host Segments

Prologue: Using a computer spreadsheet program and Diane Feinstein as a baseline, Crow tries to calculate how many times a lady Gypsy is. Gypsy is disappointed that she is only 2.7 times a lady; turns out Mike is eight times a lady.

What Crow sees while on LSD

Segment One:Pearl is conducting LSD tests on the robots and monitors their hallucinations. To augment the effect, Bobo and Brain Guy have formed an acid rock band called Narcotic Casserole. Servo has his usual delirium; Crow has a harrowing experience in which he sees Mike eating a Snickers candy bar, not a Milky Way. Crow is also somewhat surprised to learn that Mike is not a clown.

Segment Two: Tom makes a pair of legs (which are non-functional, like his arms) so he can kickbox. He challenges Gypsy to a fight, but she has a leg of her own and instantly takes out Servo.

Pearl's Drug Experiment

Segment Three: Mike, Crow and Servo realize they've never really thanked Pearl for not killing them. They take a moment to thank Pearl, interrupting her attempt to kill them.

Segment Four: Crow is Droppy, The Water Droplet, an emissary from the National Water Council, who has come to share just a few thousand of the many uses for water.

Segment Five: Mike has a giant Robert Z'Dar-esque chin. The bots chide him for being so insensitive to all the people with large prosthetic chins. MIke doesn't really care. Down in Castle Forrester, Bobo and Brain Guy inform Pearl that Narcotic Casserole is leaving to tour with Moby Grape. Pearl gives them each exploding tracking collars.